The Lutheran Church in American History (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Lutheran Church in American HistoryThe position of the Lutheran Church in America rests upon a birthright. It is not an immigrant church that needed to be naturalized after it was transplanted from some European land. It is as old as the Ameri can nation and much older than the American Republic. The Lutheran Church in America is an integral and potent part of American Christianity. The people in the Lutheran churches of the land are a constituent and typical element of the American nation. This fact, if properly understood and adequately weighed, will im press every Lutheran with a sense of his responsibility to his day and to his community. It should impress the Lutheran Church as a whole with a sense of its obligation to American civilization in general.Now this reciprocal relationship between American culture and the American Lutheran Church can be properly understood only in the light of the historical perspective. That the Lutheran churches are an inte gral and molding element in American Christianity and that Lutherans are a constituent and determining part of the American nation can be appreciated only when it is observed that our Church and our nation were born at the same time, grew up side by side, and developed by similar stages of progress.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.